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Covering two hundred years of corporate capitalism in Russia, from the tsarist period through    perestroika and into the present, this work demonstrates the historical obstacles that have confronted Russian corporate entrepreneurs and the continuity of Russian attitudes toward corporate capitalism....

Prostitution in Early Modern AmsterdamAmsterdam was, after London and Paris, the largest and wealthiest city of early        modern Europe, and was, as nowadays, renowned for its prostitution. The Burgher and        the Whore reconstructs Amsterdam's whoredom in detail, and explores the trade as a        pre-industrial business, embedded in the...

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An exploration of the relationship between poetry, song, and authority in Augustan Rome. Michele Lowrie argues that the medium of writing, as opposed to song, could offer an escape from current social and political demands by shifting the focus toward the readership of posterity....